Mandier (2022 — part of the (Im)permanence series)
Oil on canvas
27cm x  22cm.

(im)permanence (2022) turns our attention to simple things, to the need to re-educate our gaze. It shows us that, if we rescue a little of our poetic vulnerability, we are capable of transforming the small and irrelevant into something extraordinary.

Through nature, we have the original flowers that symbolize the essence, the process, the simple and the natural. The Greco-Roman structures, inspired mainly by Corinthian pilasters, refer us to construction – what we are today is the result of what we were yesterday – and to the nationalization in its materiality of something that, while simultaneous and passing, goes unnoticed.

Furthermore, the ornamentation of its structure is presented to us in an ironic way, as a way of strengthening the poetics of the “useless” of this series. In this way, we seek to highlight, from the combination of flowers and the presence of constructions, the need to develop our sensitivity and see in things the beauty of processes in the midst of the world of speed, synchrony, ubiquity, transience and dematerialization. It is, finally, the contrast between nature, unpredictable and ephemeral, and the Greco-Roman structures, fixed and solid, that elucidate this opposition and simultaneity between the current present within the permanent.

Sésamo (2022 — part of the (Im)permanence series).
Oil on canvas.
40cm x  60 cm.

Raiz-do-sol (2022 — part of the (Im)permanence series)
Oil on canvas
22cm x  18cm.